2007-11-28 17:38:09 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I don't know, but they deserve their money more than you or I deserve their money.
2007-11-28 17:54:12 · answer #1 · answered by harvardbeans 4 · 5⤊ 5⤋
WTF? What kind of a question is this?
Who should GET their money if they don't "deserve" it?
Who should MAKE these "deserving" decisions?
What criteria would be used to make a decision like this?
How about we go for a FLAT TAX of about 10%, eliminate the need for an IRS and all that RED TAPE! ELIMINATE ALL exemptions and LOOP-HOLES!
Start taxing only after an individual earns 35k or a Family earns, 80k.
Drop the inheritance Tax and make sure everyone pays their fair share on everything else.
Or some version of this that works to balance our budget, while cutting pork and meeting our Federal Budget needs.
Why would you ask such a goofy question....maybe I have been up too long!
2007-11-29 07:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Since when did 'deserving' have anything to do with it?
On what grounds should we determine who deserves it?
I think by most reasonable standards, one would say that most wealthy people in fact do not 'deserve' the money they have, however most of them also do not deserve to arbitrarily have it taken away either.
2007-11-29 02:22:10 · answer #3 · answered by lmn78744 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who gets to determine who deserves what? Does the government deserve all of the tax dollars it collects?
2007-11-29 02:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by - 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You can't lump the rich into one group. There are those that are rich that don't deserve all of their money just like there are poor people who don't deserve all of their money either. As long as they have gotten their money legally, then why shouldn't the rich have their assets?
2007-11-29 01:46:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kenneth C 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Depends on your defintion of 'deserve'. They could be awful people who are very very smart and work hard or they could be good people who got lucky... or even bad people who get luck. If you believe that capitalism works, then you have to believe that the rich deserve their money because thats what everyone is apparently striving for.
2007-11-29 01:43:25 · answer #6 · answered by c181187 4 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Ask yourself this question first: Do you deserve the money you have?
I am definitely not rich (or even well off; I am graduate student) but I don't begrudge people who are. Envy and jealousy are not good things.
2007-11-29 01:51:20 · answer #7 · answered by wichitaor1 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋
Nobody pays millions, much less hundreds of millions of dollars a year for anything they are not forced into. The only way to get that kind of money is with political force, or fraud, or some other sort of scam. Those who claim to be "self made" are just not admitting where they got all the parts.
I recall Cheney saying in a debate before y2k that he had never taken Government money, and everyone said what a great debate point that was. Then when people went back and looked virtually every dollar he made was because of the political juice he had to suck it out of the Government.
I hear wingers say that while Paris Hilton never actually earned a dime of her billions, her Grandfather did (of course he also used political games to do so as well). But how many generations of indolent royalty does the world have to suffer before they no longer "deserve" their fortunes?
How many poisoned kids, cratered American industries, and Main Street ghost towns, do Americans "Deserve" so the Walton family can roll in their billions, and further wreck America with their buying Politicians, and driving American Fascist Totalitarian Theocracy?
The real question is how much do people who use great power to enrich themselves and concentrate more power need to be either restrained or held accountable. Wingers would blame the poor for their choices about themselves, but never the rich for their choices that affect billions.
2007-11-29 02:11:41 · answer #8 · answered by Freedem 3 · 2⤊ 9⤋
Yes they do. They are the ones that make it possible for businesses to operate. They are the ones that make it possible for your mommy and daddy to have jobs, so you can sit on your lazy, uneducated *** and have everything given to you. What is your major malfunction? Why do you hate people that worked hard to achieve the American Dream? You know if you hate it here so much, you can always leave. I hear Cuba (maybe Castro won't shoot you) is lovely this time of year, and China is looking for a few good children to force into slavery (it's possible you could find sweatshops very rewarding work).
2007-11-29 01:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 4⤋
Castro in Cuba is rich does he deserve it?
Bush is now rich, does he deserves it?
2007-11-29 02:16:36 · answer #10 · answered by sea link2 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Did they make all their money? Did they inherit it? Why shouldn't they have their own money?
2007-11-29 03:59:46 · answer #11 · answered by NurseJill 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋